# A tibble: 6 × 5
act scene character dialogue line_number
<chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl>
1 Act I Scene I [stage direction] Thunder and lightning. Enter thre… NA
2 Act I Scene I First Witch When shall we three meet again 1
3 Act I Scene I First Witch In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 2
4 Act I Scene I Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done, 3
5 Act I Scene I Second Witch When the battle's lost and won. 4
6 Act I Scene I Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. 5
Negative Words
Which lines (or dialogue) contain negative words?
I’ll call it Negative Lines
# A tibble: 6 × 2
dialogue blood
<chr> <lgl>
1 Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches FALSE
2 When shall we three meet again FALSE
3 In thunder, lightning, or in rain? FALSE
4 When the hurlyburly's done, FALSE
5 When the battle's lost and won. FALSE
6 That will be ere the set of sun. FALSE
# A tibble: 5 × 3
act negative_lines_per_act average_character
<chr> <int> <dbl>
1 Act I 15 36.3
2 Act II 31 33.9
3 Act III 27 36.1
4 Act IV 14 34.7
5 Act V 10 36.4
Is there a relationship?
Openning and closing (I and V) acts have the longest dialogues, but low negative lines
If any relationship: total negative lines per act seems to be negatively associated to average dialogue length per act -> but comfounding variable: some acts may be longer than others
Act II has the most negative lines, but the shortest dialogues in average
Limitations
“Negative” words are subjective! and only a very limited set of negative words were looked at here.
Length of Acts were not captured: some acts may be much longer -> leading to more negative words.
What about “love”???
Does Macbeth ever verbally expressed “love” in the play??? and to whom?
# A tibble: 4 × 3
character dialogue love_strings
<chr> <chr> <chr>
1 Macbeth Safe toward your love and honour. and honour.
2 Macbeth Courage to make 's love kno wn? kno wn?
3 Macbeth Grapples you to the heart and love of us, of us,
4 Macbeth To those that know me. Come, love and health to all; and health to …
Seems like it only occurred 4 times in the whole play and they seem to occur only in generic settings (“love and honour”, “love and health to all”, seems like words said when toasting) — poor lady Macbeth :(